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 From that time he retired from public life, and devoted himself to literary pursuits. He died 3 June, 1869. He was the author of numerous writings, the most interesting of which are those relating to Lord Byron and the Memoir of himself entitled Recollections of a Long Life, privately printed 1865.

Admitted 24 January, 1583-4

Eldest son of Sir Thomas Hoby, Ambassador in France in 1565—6. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. Under the patronage of Lord Burghley, who was his uncle, he rose into favour at Court, and was employed on many important missions. In 1586 he entered Parliament, and acquired distinction as a speaker. He accompanied the expedition to Cadiz in 1596. He was a favourite with James I., and frequently entertained him at his house at Bisham. He died at Queenborough Castle, of which he was Constable, 1 March, 1616-7. He was a friend of Camden, who eulogizes his accomplishments in his Britannia; and he took a keen part in the theological controversies of the time as his Letter to Theophilus Higgons (1609), and his tracts entitled A Counter-snarle for Ishmael Rabshacheh (1613), and A Curry-combe for a Goxe-combe (1613), all against the Jesuits, sufficiently prove.

Admitted 5 November, 1812.

Eldest son of John Hogg of Norton, co. Durham. He was educated at Durham Grammar School and Oxford, where he made the acquaintance of Shelley, the poet, with whom he collaborated in some early productions, and whose biographer he finally became. Being expelled with Shelley from the University, he took up the study of the Law, and settled at York as a Conveyancer. He was called to the Bar 28 Nov. 1817. In 1813 he produced anonymously a work of fiction under the title of Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, and in 1822 he contributed an article on Lucretius to the Liberal Review. In 1825 he went on a tour of Europe, and published his experiences under the title of Two Hundred and Nine Days (1827); and in 1832 published Reminiscences of Shelley at Oxford in the New Monthly. In the same year he obtained the appointment of Revising Barrister in Northumberland. During his life he kept up communication with Shelley, and in 1855 undertook the task of writing his Life, two volumes of which appeared in 1858. It was not, however, continued. Hogg died 27 Aug. 1862.

Admitted 18 June, 1659.

Son of, the Antiquary (q.v.), of Grimsby. He took part in the wars against the Dutch in Charles II.'s time, and had the command of a ship in 1667. He is described by Pepys as a notable player on the bagpipes, but otherwise in most uncomplimentary terms, as "as idle and insignificant fellow as ever came into the fleet." This, however, did not prevent Pepys accepting his hospitality on a subsequent occasion. In 1667 he was returned for Grimsby, and in 1672 he commanded the "Cambridge" at the attack on the Dutch fleet in the Channel (13 March). He fell in the battle of Solebay 28 May the same year, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.